Drunk Shakespeare is an abridged 90-minute whirlwind version of Macbeth full of jokes, drinks, and audience participation. …
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All about the Bard
A guide to modern Shakespeare performance on stage and screen: reviews, interviews, resources, and podcasts.
Review: The Public Theater takes a joyous, bare bones Twelfth Night on the road
The Public Theater Mobile Unit brings Shakespeare’s farcical romance of mistaken identities, Twelfth Night, to prisons, community centers, and more in New York …
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Doubles and disguises reign in Desdemona Chiang’s excellent As You Like It at CalShakes
Desdemona Chiang's As You Like It at CalShakes is an inventive modern dress production emphasizing doubles, disguises, and the performance of love. …
Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Santa Cruz Shakespeare
The 2016 season at Santa Cruz Shakespeare offers a terrific production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and a thought-provoking gender-swapped Hamlet. …
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Ralph Fiennes excavates Richard III’s malevolence at the Almeida
Ralph Fiennes' titular bunch-backed toad is a man thoroughly damaged by years of abuse in Rupert Goold's enthralling modern dress production. The production …
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Much Ado About Nothing is a wonderful season opener for CalShakes’ new artistic director
Despite a rocky start with "additional text" consisting of embarrassingly bad rhyming couplets, director Jackson Gay’s Much Ado About Nothing proves a great …